Your daily look at late-breaking news, upcoming events and the stories that will be talked about today:
- UKRAINE PRESIDENT ANNOUNCES EARLY ELECTIONS
Yanukovych also promises to form coalition government in bid to defuse crisis, end fighting in Kiev between police and protesters.
- WHY FEDERAL BUDGET DEFICIT IS FADING AS A POLITICAL ISSUE
Annual spending gap has fallen sharply, lawmakers are tired of budget battles, and public has shifted its focus to issues like health care.
- LIFE OF YOUNG WOMAN IN YEMEN IS ENTANGLED WITH AL-QAIDA
Story of Abeer al-Hassani, her ex-husband and three brothers provides rare look at one branch of the terror network.
- WHO OBAMA WILL HOST AT THE WHITE HOUSE
Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama coming for a meeting. Visit could hurt already tense relations with China, which denounces him as a separatist.
- NYPD CLEARED IN SURVEILLANCE OF NEW JERSEY MOSQUES
Federal judge dismisses civil rights lawsuit brought by eight Muslims who alleged New York police discriminated based on religion, national origin, race.
- WOMAN IN CUSTODY AFTER FOUR KILLED IN NORTHERN CALIFORNIA
Eviction hearing at American Indian tribal headquarters turns deadly. Police say tribe's leader among the victims.
- NEW HONDA PLANT SHOULD MAKE MEXICO NO. 2 EXPORTER TO U.S.
Country expected to pass Japan, narrow gap with No. 1 Canada once 200,000 Fit hatchbacks a year are rolling off assembly line.
- WHITE HOUSE POLITICAL OFFICE BACK IN ACTION AHEAD OF NOVEMBER ELECTIONS
Democrats have always complained Obama doesn't do enough to help elect their candidates. This year, he has incentive: keep party's fragile Senate majority.
- WHAT'S DIFFERENT ABOUT THIS YEAR'S FLU SEASON
It wasn't as bad as last year, and the vaccine worked better, but children and young adults - not the elderly - were hit hardest because of swine flu.
- HOW TWO STATES MAY TRY TO DRIVE SMOKING RATES LOWER
Utah and Colorado, which already have low percentages of smokers, considering raising legal age to buy tobacco to 21.